Review by Madelia Hickman Ring, Photos Courtesy Hargesheimer Kunstauktionen DUSSELDORF, GERMANY – In the span of four days, March 9-12, Hargesheimer Kunstauktionen offered a total of nearly 2,750...
Review by W.A. Demers, Photos Courtesy Alderfer Auction HATFIELD, PENN. – Alderfer’s March 10 auction featured fine and decorative arts, silver, jewelry, furniture and rugs, with art highlights...
Review by W.A. Demers, Photos Courtesy Leland Little HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. – Diamond rings are a staple of estate auctions but they generally elicit not much in the way of excitement. From the personal...
Auction Action In Beverly, Mass. BEVERLY, MASS. – Kaminski Auction’s late February sale concluded with the fine arts category taking the two top lots of the auction, and contemporary art leading...
In the high stakes, big money world of art dealing, it has traditionally been unusual for art dealers – who often see each other as competitors – to collaborate. At least, that was the way of the past,...
By Jessica Skwire Routhier HARTFORD, CONN. – Milton Avery has always been a paradox. His late-blooming career broke across several key moments in the development of American art, but his work has never...
YORK, PENN. — On March 16, Hake’s set a new world auction record with the sale of a Kenner Star Wars Boba Fett rocket-firing prototype action figure. The Version 2 J-slot prototype, made in 1979, attracted...
COPAKE, N.Y. — The top lot at Copake Auction’s March 19 unreserved estate auction, which also included the estate collection of Myron & Carolyn Neugeboren, was a vintage carved and painted wood...
CLEVELAND, OHIO — The top lot at Rachel Davis Fine Art’s March 19 sale at $45,000, including buyer’s premium, was by Roger Medearis (American, 1920-2001). “The Flower Children,’’ 1969, an egg tempera...
SACRAMENTO, CALIF. — Part 2 of the Mel Hammer bottle collection — gathered over a 50-year span by a man who dedicated much of his adult life to the acquisition and study of antique glass — was sold...
GENESEO, N.Y. — Fine art and antiques crossed the block at Cottone Auctions on March 19, including more than 275 lots and featuring the collections of the estate of Elizabeth Strasenburgh, Rochester,...
DALLAS — He might not have won the 1860 presidential election, but Stephen A. Douglas finished first — twice — in Heritage Auctions’ Inaugural J. Doyle Dewitt Collection Americana & Political...